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the shangri-las: some of their greatest hits in rather obscure versions plus some bonustracks for your listening pleasure

and yes these recordings are sounding rather close to the original recordings and some of them might even be the original recordings but most of them are not and they all sound as if they had been recorded on a monocassetterecorder with the microphone handheld close to an old transistor radio while the shangri-las were singing live to the wrong backingtracks broadcasted on a forgotten hinterland medium wave radio station somewhere in the nineties of the lastlost century and it's all too beautiful and full of aw and there is nothing going down at all to save you life.

 

i bought this cd for 99 cent from a rummage table in stuttgart and was extremely dissappointered at first listening but then the badbadbad sound quality started to grow on me and the interplay of obscure live recordings and faded out versions and mouldy old sounds overall on the whole gave me a strange feeling of coherenceness and closeness very very close.

 

 

for your listening pleasure i added some bonustracks for your listening pleasure and they all make sense in a very sensual way so let's go:

01 - remember (walking in the sand) (listen directly)
02 - leader of the pack
03 - right now and not later
04 - long live our love
05 - out in the streets (listen directly)
06 - past present and future
07 - he cried    
08 - give him a great big kiss (listen directly)
09 - i can never go home any more
10 - maybe (listen directly)
11 - so much in love
12 - shout (listen directly)
13 - goodnight my love
14 - you can't sit down
15 - give us your blessings
16 - simon says (listen directly)
17 - never again
18 - sophisticated boom boom
19 - i'm blue
20 - heaven only knows (listen directly)
21 - the train from kansas city
22 - the boy
23 - what's a girl supposed to do
24 - bull dog
25 - it's easier to cry

the bonustracks:

26 - great big kiss - the new york dolls (live in paris; 1974)

27 - great big kiss - johnny thunders (live at the marquee club in london; 3rd of june 1982. with tony james on bass, jerry nolan on drums, steve new on guitar) (listen directly)

28 - great big kiss - die mütter (rehearsal room recording; stuttgart 1983. with mine callisti on drums, oliver neitzel on guitar, luigi nicoletti on bass, siemers me=myself=am=i singing) (listen directly)

 

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minhinihalism going to the maximistress: the 1965 execution of the day of niagara by john cale, tony conrad, angus maclise, la monte young and marian zazeela plus some bonustracks you might not be aware of

released some twenty years ago this cd of the real dream syndicate has become a rather rare item, and i thought you might like to hear it again or eventually at long least last lost lust et cetera. for your listening pleasure i added some bounustracks i found in the dark holes of my collection, and so it's allha great minimaniacinihihilism wartsoever.

the real dream syndicate in 1965 of course were john cale, tony conrad, angus maclise, la monte young, and marian zazeela: they were very young artists following a new vision of how art might want to be: mod, punk, pop, proto-psych, avantgarde: you name it, and they took it and they got it and they interreversed it and they made it better or wurst. very nice; and of course you know all about them of course. i don't need to tell yer cuz eyema supafellord.

for your listening pleasure and for you to build and burn a nice cd you can lay back to relax and listen comfourtabely at home i added some faulty minuettes of bonustracks you might know or love or leave or no or not. burt lets start with the real stuff:

01 - day of niagara (recorded in 1965 et cetera et cetera)

and now for the bonustracks:

 here we go-go!

 

02 - angus maclise - cloud asylum (recorded in 1966; from the cd up from the archives by gerard malanga)

03 - john cale and tony conrad - after the locust (1968) (listen directly)
04 - john cale, angus maclise and terry jennings - terry's cha-cha (1967)

 

05 - john cale and angus maclise - hot scoria (1964 or 1965)

06 - john cale - wall (1969, from the cd-version of vintage violence) (listen directly)

07 - jon gibson - terry's g dorian blues (probably 1992; in good company with/of la monte young) (listen directly)

08 - la monte young - 89 VI 8 C. 1:42-1:52 AM Paris Encore (probably 1990; from the tape tellus #24)

09 - the ramones - judy is a punk (1976; from the soundtrack of the tenenbaums) (listen directly)

and that's it.

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you really got me! 31 versions of the greatest song of all, featuring the pinkees, british summertime ends, the beat boys, the portsmouth sinfonia, 801, the wilde flowers and 21 versions executed by the kinks. and they all sound the same.

the first word in this song is girl. it means girl. and to leave your body. yes, 31 versions of you really got me (though two are not) omitting the common hammersmith gorillas and van halen versions and incorporating a rather obscure focus point on the glamrogue band 801, the german postpunk pinkees, the even more german beat boys, the britishiest of the bizarre british brands summertime ends, and the morest britishitst of them all, the kinks, of course off course. additional information can easily be found on discogs or your favourite search engine, honeybaby, horneybeebee, honkydont!

so here we go-go:

01 - the portsmouth sinfonia 1977 (listen directly)

02 - the kinks - bbc, saturday club, 1964-09-07, transmissions-version

03 - the kinks - live at kelvin hall in glasgow, 1st of april 1967; mono-version (listen directly)

04 - 801 - live at hull 1977 (listen directly)

05 - the kinks on german tv: beat beat beat 23rd of november 1965

06 - the kinks live at maryland 1989

07 - the kinks in july 1964; mono-version with reverb

08 - the kinks - bbc, saturday club, 1964-09-07, kulled-from-the-arkives-version (listen directly)

09 - the kinks on top gear, 30th of october 1964

10 - the wilde flowers, rehearsal room recordings 1964, with kevin ayers, robert wyatt, brian hopper and hugh hopper (listen directly)

11 - the kinks live undated, from the early-days-of-rock-bootleg from 1989

12 - the kinks - don't ever let me go; recorded in september 1964 (this is not you really got me, but it is); official version

13 - the kinks - bbc, saturday club, 1964-09-07; ray davies talks about you really got me (listen directly)

14 - 801 - live on the 3rd of september 1976; featuring bill maccormick, brian eno, lloyd watson, francis monkman, simon phillips, and phil manzanera

15 - the beatboys 2007; more dissinfoamation on this german band can be found nextdoor (listen directly)

16 - the kinks; july 1964; mono-version

17 - the kinks live in paris on the 14th of april 1964 (listen directly)

18 - the pinkees; rehearsal room recording 1983. wenne on drums, machner on bass, zoran or flupp on guitar, and yes, that is me, singing with my voice (listen directly)

19 - the kinks - bbc, saturday club, 1964-09-07, anothergreatlostkinksalbum-version

20 - the kinks, live im bremen beat-club; tortally unconfirmed

21 - 801 - rehearsal room recordings dating from the 23rd of august 1976 (listen directly)

22 - the kinks - bbc, saturday club, 1964-09-07, official version

23 - the kinks, live, probably 1980, from the 1997 german compilation hit the road  (listen directly)

24 - british summertime ends; probadly recordered in 1990 (listen directly)

25 - don't ever let me go; recorded in september 1964 (this is not you really got me, but it is); bootleg-version (listen directly)

26 - the kinks - live at kelvin hall in glasgow, 1st of april 1967; stereo-version

27 - 801 live on the 2nd of november 1977 featuring the god=like paul thompson on drums (listen directly)

28 - the kinks live in london at the nme-poll-or-whatever-winners-party on the fourth of nouvember 1965

29 - the kinks in or on or at shindig in or over or all about the usa in november 1964

30 - the pinkees live in beutelsbach 1983 (listen directly)

31 - the kinks live in paris on the 14th of april 1964 again (listen directly)

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the new riders of the purple sage: the first studio demo from 1969, embryonic riders from 1968, the backwards recordings, and some bonus tracks featuring marmaduke, jerry garcia, dave nelson and all the others

 

recorded way back in 1968 and 1969 these recordings of some early line-ups of the new riders (of the purple sage with pink and yellow flashes) have been released on a relix cd in 1986, and though there was a second edition of that cd at some time in the nineties these performances are rather hard to find.

the new riders for their first demo session in november 1969 were john "marmaduke" dawson (guitars and lead vocals), david nelson (guitars and vocals), jerry garcia (pedal steel and vocals), phil lesh (bass), mickey hart (drums), and bob matthews sat in as the engineer. additionally included are two tracks that marmaduke recorded with garcia and members of the doug sahm band in 1968, and "the backwards tapes", some experimental noise david nelson produced using and processing rehearsal room recordings and other relics of the new riders. some more information on before time began can be found on discogs.

for your listening pleasure i took those backwards tapes and played them backwards again.

so here we go:

the first studio demo of the new riders, recorded in san francisco in november 1969:

01 - henry (listen directly)

02 - all i ever wanted

03 - last lonely eagle

04 - cecilia

marmaduke and friends, recorded in san mateo on the 31st of july 1968:

05 - garden of eden

06 - superman (listen directly)

the backwards tapes by dave nelson:

07 - deh rominap

08 - a handful of brains (listen directly)

09 - i'm through with the fish, harve

10 - och tamale (listen directly)

11 - a handful of brains part 2

12 - where discipline comes in

bonus tracks: 

the backwards tapes played backwards:

13 - deh rominap (listen directly)

14 - a handful of brains

15 - i'm through with the fish, harve

16 - och tamale (listen directly)

17 - a handful of brains part 2

18 - where discipline comes in

plus:

19 - the grateful dead - dark star (live at fillmore west, 01.03.1969) 

20 - the new riders of the purple sage - henry (live at fillmore west, july 1971) (listen directly)

download the new riders

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download a rough and ready version as flac
(tracks 01-12 and 20 as flac; tracks 13-18 as mp3 due to technical reasons; omitting track 19 to reduce the filesize)

 

SMASHITS! 31 very different demo-tracks found on 30 very different demo-cds provided to the stuttgart employment agency by 30 very different german bands

hits! hits! hits! sing along with every song! i found all of these cds in the trash can of the stuttgart employment agency and saved their/my/your lives. they are aw- and wonderfuel, ridi- and radicoulessly loud and shmaltz- and shmattering. underhearded and unnoearthed demo-recordings by coumpletelay obscenescure germain bands lurking for engagermints and a contract wayback in the 2010ial years of our last century.

there is a lot of missheard lyrics, a lot of dilletantraism, and a lot of no fun, my baby, no fun. you will love to hate these guys and dolls, and you will sing along to any of their songs. these krauts are made for working.

in the rar-file waydownbelow you will find some pictures of eachandavery cd involved plus some more. some of the songs are just edited fragments, but most of them are long enough. and now get ready to sing out loud!

01 - pumping special - let's have a party

02 - acoustic fun orchestra - mission impossible (listen directly)

03 - olav w. elvis - blue suede shoes (listen directly)

04 - shazam - kon-tiki (originally by the shadows; just in case you were wondering)

05 - die phantastischen fünf - american pie

06 - karin & soul train - river deep mountain high

07 - phoenix string band - looking out my back door (listen directly)

08 - avantgarde - smoke on the water

09 - the diamonds - wipe out

10 - slapjack - twenty flight rock (listen directly)

11 - oldies but goldies - sea cruise

12 - slapshot - nur geträumt

13 - tattoo59 - rock and roll music (listen directly)

14 - die drahtzieher - tainted love

15 - the swinging guitars - how high the moon

16 - the shadoxx - i'll be back (listen directly)

17 - transatlantic trio - skandal um rosi

18 - acoustic swing orchestra - proud mary (listen directly)

19 - billy's oldies but goldies - johnny b. goode (might be the same band as number eleven, but probably it's not)

20 - elvis and shawn vegvary - great balls of fire

21 - boogaloo - secret agent man

22 - devils & soehne - 16 tons (listen directly)

23 - olav w. elvis - teddybear

24 - hot four - 99 luftballons (listen directly)

25 - juke joint ramblers - born in chicago (written by nick gravenites and made popular by the paul butterfield blues band, of course)

26 - so nice boys - evil ways

27 - the beatboys - poor boy (the german beat band die the lords learned them this song in 1965; yes i mean it so as i say it) (listen directly)

28 - jefferson's club - voodoo chile

29 - the new shatters - the night before (listen directly)

30 - kirnberger - life is life (listen directly)

31 - round midnight - ymca

and that's it for now.

download some postpostkraut demos for your listening pleasure if you dare

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i got bad taste: the weird and funny world of re-recorded hits featuring the liverbirds, the dovells, carl perkins, joey dee, the sweet, lou christie and many more

 

a very funny cd for a sunny afternoon, with or not without a lot of beer. a compilation of re-recordings of songs originally recorded in the fifties, sixties or seventies using as many members of the original groups as possible, featuring the rattles, the angels, the crickets, the comets and even the flamin' groovies and link wray.

most of these songs obviously were re-recorded at some time in the nineties or later, but most often there is appsoloudelay no evidence when, where or why they were recorded. burst never mymind, this coumpilation is just for the fun in and out of it.

 

some versions are rather close to the original version, some are much better than their predecessor, and some are completeredley over the top. there is no chance to get bored, so please don't. most of these records, by the way, i found in the cut-out-section of the dust bins of long forgotten record shops somewhere in germany, and nobody cared for them except me.

and contradictating the cover i did not include any recordings by bill haley and dion dimucci because their cheapotrashrecords are including their original stuff and so did not fit in the concept of this post.

so here we go-go:

01 - the comets - rock around the clock (live ca. 1993)

02 - the crystals - da doo ran ran (live ca. 1993)

03 - carl perkins - matchbox (???)

04 - johnny and the hurricanes - crossfire (???) (listen directly)

05 - the crickets - that'll be the day (live ca. 1993)

06 - roger mcguinn - turn turn turn (live ca. 1993)

07 - the angels - my boyfriend's back  (???) (listen directly)

08 - the sweet - alexander graham bell (1986)

09 - ? and the mysterians - "8"teen (live 1998)

10 - joey dee - shout (live ca. 1993)

11 - the rattles - meddley 1997

12 - the conturs - do you love me? (live ca. 1993) (listen directly)

13 - the tokens - tonight i fell in love (live ca. 1993)

14 - the dixie cups - iko iko (live ca. 1993)

15 - the original juniors - at the hop (live ca. 1993) (listen directly)

16 - carl perkins - rock medley (???)

17 - the dovells - you can't sit down (live ca. 1993) (listen directly)

18 - link wray - jack the ripper (live 1996)

19 - lou christie - the gipsy cried (live ca. 1993)

20 - ? and the mysterians - 96 tears (1997) (listen directly)

21 - the liverbirds - medley (live 1997)

22 - the dovells - bristol stomp (live ca. 1993)

23 - the flamin' groovies - let me rock (2017)

24 - the starclub ensemble - born to be wild (1997) (listen directly)

25 - little richard - keep a knockin' (???)

download some re-recorded rock and roll

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